I'm writing a short essay (a subsection of a chapter) about the art of purposeful browsing. Came across Virginia Woolf's remarks on "the learner" versus "the reader" in her "Hours in a Library." Anyone know of other essays, musings, speculations on these kinds of themes? #AmReading #Reading #libraries #browsing #research @bibliolater ?
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You may find the following link useful:
Reading in the Age of Continuous Partial Attention: Retail-Inspired Ideas for Academic Libraries https://doi.org/10.5860/rusq.58.3.7045
@bibliolater Will cite that piece. I'd like to add your name in my Acknowledgements section in the book, should I list you as Bibliolater, or would you like to DM me your name?
@coastalhistory If possible I would like to remain unacknowledged but please accept my heartfelt thanks.
@bibliolater I will respect your wishes, of course.
@bibliolater Someone else recommended Benwell, Procter and Robinson's "Not Reading Brick Lane," which intersects in interesting ways with the article you mention. It's about people wanting to ban a book without having read it carefully, but the essay is more wide-ranging than that.